Editor’s picks | | | Dating from around 1800, The Souvenir depicts an elegantly dressed young woman carving an initial into a tree trunk, watched by her faithful pet spaniel. It is a copy of a painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (now in the Wallace Collection in London) and was made by an artist in his circle View Lot Estimate: €1,500-2,000 until 14 June, Online | | | | The Italian jewellery house Bulgari opened its first American outlet at the Pierre Hotel in New York in 1972, and launched a ‘Stars and Stripes’ collection using motifs from the US flag. Among the designs produced in the years that followed was this diamond and enamel bracelet, with its star-spangled spheres in red and blue View Lot Estimate: $50,000-70,000 11 June, New York | | | | Boats and Mountains is a meditative evocation of fishing vessels at daybreak by Lin Fengmian, a Chinese artist who was also an inspirational teacher. Having studied in Paris and Berlin in the 1920s, he returned home to help found the National Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where Wu Guanzhong and Zao Wou-Ki were among his students View Lot Estimate: €40,000-60,000 13 June, Paris | | | | In 18th-century France, gracious living was not solely the preserve of high-born humans, as this Louis XVI dog kennel demonstrates. Made around 1775 by Georges Jacob, one of the era’s foremost furniture-makers, it reflected a growing trend among fashionable ladies to keep lapdogs — and treat them to every luxury View Lot Estimate: $8,000-12,000 until 18 June, Online | | | Browse Auctions | |
